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> In a world where sexual assault is so common I think we need to seriously reconsider what we're consuming and what we're normalising by calling this stuff har
by laserlight 3y ago
> In a world where sexual assault is so common I think we need to seriously reconsider what we're consuming and what we're normalising by calling this stuff harmless.
There's evidence that porn reduces the rate of sexual assaults [0].
[0] Evidence Mounts: More Porn, Less Sexual Assault. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/all-about-sex/2016...
- AlecSchueler 3y agoYour article claims that rape levels have deceased with the expansion of internet pornography but that's statistically untrue, as they've almost doubled: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible...
- laserlight 3y agoYeah, just like how US spending on science, space, and tech increased suicides by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation [0]. The article I cited talks about natural experiments, which examine what happens before and after porn was legalized. [0] Spurious Correlations. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- AlecSchueler 3y agoI understand that correlation is not causation but the claims in the article you linked me to rely on correlative factors that are demonstrably false.